The start of the electronics journey of improving the tone on your bass. Best Bass Gear carries a large assortment of pickups for many different basses with multiple string configurations to choose from.

Further enhance the tone shaping capabilities on your bass. A preamp can offer further tone shaping of two bands of equalization with treble and bass, three bands of equalization with treble, bass and midrange, or even four bands to offer further tonal expansion. Best Bass Gear carries a large variety of preamp solutions for your bass guitar.

Improve the quality of the hardware on your existing bass or fresh build. Bridge replacements offer better aesthetics over stock hardware along with the added benefit of further control of variables like intonation, string action height, and string spacing. Best Bass Gear stocks a wide selection of bridges in a variety of different string spacings, finishes, string configurations and manufacturers..

Tuning machines offer a nice custom touch when used with an upgrade or a fresh start of years of future stability with tuning on new builds. Multiple key style and finishes is available for a unique touch to any bass. Best Bass Gear is proud to stock tuning keys from Hipshot & Gotoh.

Detuners provide a unique way to drop tune your bass guitar from a single step up to two full steps with the convenience of only a flick of a lever! Available as single detuners or as a set with tuning keys and a detuner for the lowest string. We offer a variety of styles and finishes to upgrade your existing tuning key to a detuner or start a fresh build.

Mike Pope

Michael Pope Preamps

The Flexcore is a 1-to-4 band preamp that is extremely nimble in its configuration options, allowing you to decide which configuration best fits you.

Originally offered only on Fodera instruments, these preamps are now available for any instrument that can handle the installation.

Since these are prewired in-house and utilize a unique and custom modular connection between components, certain components can be omitted or included if less or more EQ bands are required.

There is NO soldering required for most installations. The Flexcore also does not require impedence matching of the controls for active or passive Pickups. It can accept input of both active pickups like EMG, and passive pickups including Bartolini, Aguilar, Nordstrand, Lindy Fralin, Delano, Seymour Duncan, and DiMarzio.

Pickups, bridge ground, and power for active pickups is available input via screw terminals.

These preamps are supplied in 18v power configuration but can easily be modified to run 9v, though it is strongly recommend to use 18v power if active pickups like EMG are being used.

The basis of the Flexcore is in Michael Pope's philosophy on music. Being a bass player himself, his preamp design is intended to support the bass player in a musically inspiring fashion.

Not content with equipment that imparted its own personality or did not offer enough features to sculpt his own unique sound, he set about building the Flexcore with its own unique approach and circuitry.

The circuitry in the Flexcore is designed to assist and not harm nor overly contour your sound. When the EQ sections are set flat in active mode, they are as close to a straight line of the pickup's signal with a small presence of gain adjustment.

The ability to create this transparency stems from the unique EQ staging. Each stage of the tone shaping circuit is independently isolated from the others. The ICs (Integrated Circuits) are 10 times more expensive and infinitely more responsive than what you would commonly find in a run-of-the-mill preamp.

There are also frequency switching options available in the tone circuit to allow you to dial in any character imaginable. Anything from up front in-your-face crisp slap tones, to darker "What is Hip" style finger style tones, to deep hollow rock tones, or the edgy Rickenbacker style edge, the circuit is there to assist without injecting its own personality in your tone.

The Flexcore requires a control cavity depth of 1¼" for installation of the controls. Each standard non stacked control accepts a 6mm set screw knob, while the stacked controls accept an 8mm lower, and 6mm upper set screw style knob.

The switchable frequencies can be adjusted on treble and bass using the supplied jumpers, where the mid controls can utilize the supplied jumpers or accessory mid Switches to allow the ultimate tonal shaping of the midrange frequency spectrum.